The Arizona champion., 1887-11-26
TRICKS OF TRADES.
AclTY DEALER WHO HAS SOME SEN.
 SlBLE VIEWS.
The Farmer Who Hid a Stone fin the Fleece May Have Deen No More Dishonest Than Soms Other
 People.
IChicnro HerAlI.l

[Chicaco Heraldl
 "A little thing occurred the other day that set me thinking, remarked Water street merchant to the reporter. We buy considerable wool. and in one of our consignments the other day we noticed & number of feeces that were unusually heavy, Investigation showed that con. ceaIed within each one was a good sized stone We reported the matter back to the country merchant from whom we had received the wool, and hs was able to identify the farmer who had sold it to him. That farmer was arrested and on the evidence of one of our hired men was found guilty of attempting fraud and was fined S%5 and the cost Now, of course the farmer had no business to put those stones in the wool The stones were of no benefit to the wool, and the whole purpose was to make it weigh heavier
 ANOTHER VIEW.
 But have often thought since O ' the other end of the matter. Suppose that 5armer had gone into store in his town Iud bought piece of cloth The mer. ,hant had purchased it in Chicago for all wool, and therefore, of course, sold it to ihe farmer for the same Then suppose he farmer, after getting home, had dis. covered that the cloth was cotton nix, what could he have done about It? Would he have had the mer- chant arrested? Would he have had any reiressY Certainly not. And yet the proportion of stone. weight in the wagon load of wool he sold to the mer. chant may have been no greater than the proportion of cotton in the cloth the mer. chant sold him. The stone did the wool no good, nor did the cotton do the cloth any good Both would have been better if all wool The stone and the cotton were put in on purpose to cheat Que was as bad as the other
 That little incident set me to thinking very strongly that adulteration is fraud, he continued "A little cotton in all wool cloth is likely to deceive even the smarlest Beech, horse chestnut and vii. low leaves ground up with tea would fool the farmer or any of us Pepper is sold for pepper, and yet it may be largely composed of linseed meal, mustard husk, wheat flour, pea flour, sagO, rice Hour. or sawdust These things are put into the pepper 70 cheat us, and how can help ourselves? Even the mustard which the farmer bus may be partly made of wheat four grown on his own farm, Colored with yellow ochre. and sharpened with cayenne pepper and ginger This pepper may be made of ground rice, turmeric and the mustard husk, and colored with red lead, and tne ginger may be made of ssgo meal, laptoCa. ground rice, and plaster of aris. These things the farmer buys at the grocery for genuine, and he is de.rauded just the same as he tried 10 defraud some- body else b. putting stones in his wool, only he was arrested and fined, and tother fellows ain&
 IF THE TRUTH WERE KNOWN.
 El shouldn't be surprised, if the truth were known, that that farmer had been imposed upon by cotton 'all wool cloth or willow leaf tea or something of that kind. and. disco erlng the fraud, had determined to have revenge. One decep- ton usually brings on several more. Or, perhaps, the farmer was mad at the coltee. Maybe he had been buying ground coffee and on finding that he was being swindled aL that made up his mind 10 buy safe in future by taking his coffee only m the berry. Then if he got home some night and his sharp wife picked up some of the couee berr.es and, cutting them, found that they were chicOry, cut out of the root by machine made for that purpose, don't blame him if he got mad and went out to the barn and hid some stones in the wool
 ~AduiterdliDn is fraud, and it should not be permitted except the manufacturer stamps the character of the article on tho pa kage, There is no ob eCtion to cotton in wooden cloth, If the article be labeled and sold for cotton mix. Nor is there any oh ection to chicoEy in coffee if people knew it is there and are willing tO buy iL We should have some strict laws in this country against swindling adultera. lion, and heavy penalties for their viola. ton. If nisn cant, be punished for ChUyping coffee berries out of cblcory a farmer shouldn't be fined for putting sLoges iu his wool
 LAWS ABROAD.
 sOyer In England they have good law. under wh. government analysts are appointed in nearly every town, and it h their duty on application to analyze for a small fee any article the purity of which is suspected He is required to make record of this analysis, and to take all precautions against in uStioe to either seller Ur buyer In Germany the inspection service is borough aud search ing aud when a merchant is caught hand ling impure goods he must either tell where he purchased them or have his sL op closed up.
 We need some such laws in this coun. try, he added. "and until we get them and punish alike ali who commit adulter. Rtion 1 shall feel a little guilty for having been 20 severe on the farmer who in. oreased the weight of his wool with con.